Pipe-connection



(No Model.)

W. E! JONES & H. WINNIATT.

I PIPE CONNECTION. No. 359,394. Patented- Mar. 15, 1887.

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' ATTORNEYS.

- ,rvi'rs f WILLIAM E. AND HARRY WINNIA 'I. OF EL PASO, TEXAS.

Pi PE-{CONNEQTIQM SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 359,394, dated March 15, 188'7. Application filed July 13, 1886. Serial No. 207,906. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.- ring-or gasket, K, placed between the contact- Be-it known that we, WILLIAM E. JoNEs ing surfaces of the heads. 50 and HARRY W inivrii rr, both of El Paso, in It will be seen that the heads B and D can the county of El Paso and the State of Texas, he turned at angles to each other, swinging on 5 have invented a new and Improved Pipe-Conthe bolt as their common center. The bolt nection, of which the follow ing is a. full, clear, I O is also the means for holding the pipe-heads and exact description. B and D together, and its central spring, 0, 5 The object of our invention is to provide a has the tendency to draw the heads B and D new and improved pipeconneotion which pertightly upon the rubber gaskets J and K. The mits of swinging the several connected pipeinner rubber rings or gaskets, J, are pressed sections at angles to each other. tightly between the ring I and'the heads B The invention consists of two pipe-heads and D, respectively. and prcventleakagefrom 60 fastened together and turning on a spring-bolt, the channels F alnd'F, and the rubber'ring or and of a packing placed between the said gasket K prevents substances from passinginpipeheads to prevent leakage. ward from the'outside.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying Jiaving theefuliy=described-"our invention, drawings, forming a part of this specification, we claim as new and desire to secure by Letp 65 in which similar letters of reference indicate ters Patent- Y Y corresponding parts in all the figures. 1. In a pipeconneotion, the heads 18 and D,

20 Figure 1 is a plan view of our improve in combination with the spring-bolt 0, subnient'. Fig. 2 is a. sectional elevation of the stantially as shown and described. same on the line wn of Fig. 1. Fig. 3is aface 2. In a pipe-connection, the headsBand'D, 70 view of the metal packing-ring. Fig. 4. is a in combination with the bolt 0, having the side elevation of the same, and Fig. 5 is an spring Gand the nut G, substantially asshown end elevation of the connecting spring-bolt. and described.

The pipe A is provided with the head B, 3. In a pipe-connection, the headsB and D, which is connected by the bolt 0 with the in combination with the metal ring I and the 7 head D of the pipe 'E, and communication is rubber gaskets J and the springbolt 0, subestablished between the pipes A. and E by the stantially as shown and described.

0 channels F and F, formed, respectively, in the 4. In 21 pi pe-connection, the heads B and D, heads B and D. r the metal ring I, having the grooves 1 and The bolt 0 is secured centrally to the head the annniar' projection 1 in combination with 80 D, passes through-an aperture in the head B, the gaskets J and K, substantially as shown and is provided on itsouter end with ascreLwand described.

thread, on which screws the nut G. The not 5. In a pipeconnection, the heads B and D, G is covered by a cap, H, screwing on a proin combination with the metal ring I and the jection formed on the top of the head B. The gaskets K and thespring-bolt O, substantially 85 bolt 0 is formed into a coilspring, G, near its as shown and described.

center. (5. In a pipeconneetion, the heads B and D,

40 Between the heads B and D is placed a the springbolt 0, provided with the spring metal ring, I, having a central aperture, 1, G, and the nut G, in coinbinationwith the through whichthe said boltC passes, and it metal ring I and the gaskets J and K, sub-. 0 is also provided with annular grooves 1 in stantially as shown and described.

each of which fits part of a rubber ring or gas- W. E. JONES. ket, J ,which also iits into the groove B or D, HARRY WINNIATT. formed, respectively, in the heads B and D. \Vitnesses:

The ring I is provided with a central annular JOHN BAILEY,

projection, I, which is encircled bye rubber O. D. OWEN. 

